Metallic railway-tie.



PATENTBD APR. 17, 1906.

R. H. LUTZ.

METALLIC RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.15, 1906.

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ATTORNEYS rail may be bolted togethenl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed January 15, 1906. Serial No. 296,054.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, ROBERT H. LU'rz, a

I subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Rotterdam, 1n the county-of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Me- 'used tallic Railway-Ties, of which the following is a'specification.

My invention relates to railway-ties; and the object of my invention is to construct a metallic railway-tie which will be practical and-'eflicient. I attain this object by a rail way-tie constructed as shown in the accom-' panying drawings, 1n.wl11ch- Figure 1 is a p an view of my tie. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal section of the same.

' 3 is a perspective viewof a portion of a Fig. 4 is a perspective showing the method of placin the chair and rail-.-

6 is a perspective v1ew of the shim my tie. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of my railway-chair.

Similara letters refer to similar parts throughout the' several views. A United States Patent No. 803,611 was issued to me November 7 1905, for a metallic railway -'tie. My present invention is designed as an improvement upon my metallic railway-tie disclosed in said patent; and it consists principally of a chair and a shim to be used in conjunction with a modified form of the metallic bed-plate shown in my said for the rail to fit in.

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A represents the bottom of the metallic bed-plate having its sides B turned upward and its ends C turned downward and is substantially in the form of a trough. T his bedpiece may be of any desired length for single or double tracks. Where the rail is designed to rest, the sides B are made higher and have notches cut in them of sufiicient size The rails used with my metallic tie are not made in the shape ordinarily used, but have no flanges at the bottom, and are constructed as shown 1n Fig. 3. The holes are made oblong, as shown, so that byloosening the nuts the rail may be raised a limited distance to admit a shim being laced under the rail, as hereinafter described. ere the ends of the rails come together, I construct a fish-plate, as shown 1n Fig. 4, in the form of a channel, in which the ends of the rails will fit and by which the ends of the My chair D is made of iron or steel or suflicient length to fit in between the sides B B of the bediece A and is bolted upon the bottom of t e bed-plate andmay be of any desired height to correspond with the notches vin the sidesB B. The upper part of the chair, which is designed to su port the rail, is in the form of a channel. W en the tie is designed to support the adjoinin ends of the rails, the

notches in the sides B are made wide enough to receive the fish-plate E, and the channel of the chair used for the joint of the rails is also Wide enough to hold the fish-plate E, and the ends of the rail are bolted together in the fish-plate and the fish-plate containing the joint is bolted in the channel of the chair.

It is frequently necessary with railwaybeds to raise the rails slightly in order to keep them level when by reason of continued use or from frost or other cause they become Gilt of level. For this purpose I use the shim F, which is made of a suflicient length to lie in the channel of the chair D and having each end bent downwardly so as to prevent it from sliding in either direction. These shims may be made of different thicknesses and may be readily inserted under the rails along the road as occasion requires by loosening the nuts holding the rail in the chair, the oblong holes in the rails allowing them to. be raised sufficiently for that purpose.

Constructed in this way the rails are sufficiently elevated off of the ground, the ties are substantial and practical and will last an ordinary lifetime, and the rails may be leveled up and readily kept level without danger of injuring the ties or loosening the rails, and the possibility of the rail spreading is avoided and the safety and smoothness of the road are increased.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic railwa -tie in the form of a trough, the bottom of t e trough forming the bed-piece of the tie, a metallic chair secured to the bottom of the trough and adapted to fit between the sides of the trough forming a channel to support the rail and a metallic shim with the ends turning downward, of suitable-size and len th, to fit in said channel under the rail, su stantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. A metallic railway-tie in the form of a trough forming the bed-piece of the tie, a metallic chair secured to the bottom of the I cp trough and adapted to fit between the sidesv thereof forming a channel for the rail to lie In, a rail without a flange on the base adapted to fit in said channel and with vertically-0bin testimony whereof I haye afiixed my 's1gnature in presence of two wltnesses.

long-bolt-holes for bolting the rails in the ROBERT LUTZ- 5 channel and a shim adapted to. fit in the Witnesses:

channel under the rail, substantially as de- WALTER E. WARD,

scribed.

WALTER J. WARD. 

